The 70-30 vote, a victory for Democrats and the Teamsters Union, overcame GOP delaying tactics.
The cockroaches and the laquered locks, though, have never had to face the adversary that is stomping on Twinkies: the Teamsters union.
Fox already has Bush's support for a proposal to allow Mexican long-haul trucks unlimited access to U.S. roads despite opposition from the Teamsters Union, which supported Bush's energy proposals.
He had not realised, it seems, that the pension fund of the Teamsters' union, which had financed his purchase, was controlled by the Mafia.
On August 22nd a federal official nullified last year's election of Ron Carey to the presidency of the Teamsters' union, which has just organised a successful strike against United Parcel Services.
Staley, 53, is attempting what even the sympathetic say is daunting: persuading Teamsters and other union members to be more efficient, and breaking down hostility between workers and management.
Direct government supervision of the Teamsters dates back to 1989, when the union settled a racketeering lawsuit over the union's alleged ties to organized crime.
On Monday, a court-created Independent Review Board expelled Carey from the Teamsters for life for bringing reproach on the union and failing in his fiduciary responsibilities.
Members of the United Auto Workers union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Steelworkers, teachers unions and others planned to board buses, joined by even some protestors from rival neighboring state Ohio.
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The FBI said at the time that the disappearance could have been linked to Hoffa's efforts to regain power in the Teamsters and to the mob's influence over the union's pension funds.
Hostess, unlike its chief competitors, is heavily unionized (83 percent of its work force), principally by the Teamsters and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
The one-term senator from North Carolina stumped at African-American churches in Columbus on Sunday morning and planned to meet with locked-out union workers at a titanium plant in Niles before capping the day at a Teamsters hall in Youngstown.
It's been decades since the Steelworkers Union had to start branching out in order to find new members, and the Teamsters have been very innovative.
In 1964, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
Unite Here, a union representing 450, 000 members, has waged an unsuccessful four-year campaign with the Teamsters to organize Cintas workers.
He is doing well with the Teamsters (who favour drilling for oil in Alaska) and the half-a-million-member carpenters' union (who have doubled their contributions to Republican congressional candidates in 2002).
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